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I remember playing decades ago and it was understood as "common knowledge" that the two "shared the warp", however recent years appear to have taken that in a different direction.

I was wondering if the understanding I had growing up was fabricated or if the two universes did at one point share an origin? And, if that were the case, when it changed?

Was this ever in codexes? White Dwarf?

I’m remembering old archetype shifts in the Planar Chaos cube, and it got me wondering about other niche archetypes and how y’all have made them work.

What is unusual but absolutely kicks ass in your cube?

I was reading Andy Chambers' "The Masque of Vyle", which takes place in the sub-realm of the Sable Marches (an ocean archipelago in the webway, and a recent acquisition of Vect), and came across this little exchange about Land Eels, or arcotheurs, that I thought others might delight in knowing about:

> Yes, of course the riding beasts, you stupid toad,’ Kassais spat in disgust.‘

> ‘We call them arcotheurs. They are a local lifeform normally found only in deep water,’ Yegara rushed to explain. ‘If captured young enough they can be raised as you see them here, in an air-dwelling form.’

> The arcotheurs were ribbon-like in their body shape, with multiple curved legs dangling beneath. Chitinous plates protected them from tip to tail, starting no bigger than a thumbnail and widening to a double arm-span width around the midriff. The creatures ‘swam’ just above the surface of the grass in a series of undulating ripples moving backwards from their hooked mouthparts.

> As they dismounted from the Venoms, Kassais saw that most of the creatures had high-backed saddles strapped just above the mouthparts. A few already had riders in tall plumed helmets, equipped with long, hooked lances.

Drukhari and Deepkin are often compared, and I've seen more than a few great deepkin conversions, but if you ever wanted lore permission to kitbash some Arkhelian Guard, you (kinda) have have it!